The chestnut-crowned gnateater (Conopophaga castaneiceps) lives in the dark understory of tropical cloud forests and has relatively large eyes.
Even for one of the most high-profile virologists in the midst of the pandemic, it was not an event that will be easily forgotten.
Scientists have long suspected the Moon holds sizable reserves of water, secreted as ice in the deep cold of permanently shadowed craters near the poles. Two new studies tell us more about the possible extent of those reserves.
Have you, even with COVID-19, been contemplating a chemistry cha-cha? Or started to plan a physics polka before the pandemic?
Do you get excited and energized by the possibility of learning something new and complex? Do you get turned on by nuance? Do you get really stimulated by new ideas and imaginative scenarios?
Many things are taking place: ' Tomorrow's challenges in science and politics: Magazine offers in Is it time for a new way to help make adults more 'science-literate? What should the next president know about science?
Last month in the United Kingdom, we entered the promised land when my children, after a 150-day absence, returned to their school in London.
At first glance, these appear to be similar to run-of-the-mill newspaper endorsements. This analogy, however, is not quite right. At a newspaper, there is a ' between the news operation and the editorial office.
Legged robots can access spaces that wheeled robots cannot. Lee et al. developed a robust locomotion controller that uses deep reinforcement learning to teach a quadrupedal robot how to navigate unseen and unstructured environments without the need .
The United Kingdom will have a new arrangement with the European Union from 1 January.Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty * * * Any special dispensation for UK-based scientists wanting to emigrate to another EU country will depend on the outcome of UK'EU talk .
Klebsiella indica, isolated from the surface of a tomato, is one of the few microbial species reported by Indian researchers this year.
President Donald Trump's administration has quietly restarted the National Climate Assessment after public outcry over its delay.
Back in 2018, a research ecologist for the US Fire Service found himself suddenly on the edges of the largest fire tornado ever observed, 'a whirling vortex of flame 17,000 feet tall and rotating at 143 mph,
Science has long considered itself to be an apolitical enterprise. But in the midst of a global pandemic and with the 2020 election looming,
Science advances by the free exchange of ideas. New ones are put forward and pitted against existing ones, and fights are fought with rational'arguments.
If former Vice President Joe Biden wins'the presidential election, he will face'high expectations from the U.S. scientific'community.
